Kris Kavanagh speaking to a group about raising energy levels.
/ Lisa Edge
If you've been feeling run down lately you're not alone.
Holistic Health Coach Kris Kavanagh with Healthy Habits Now says low energy is one of the top three issues her clients are dealing with.
"I find that in today's society people have a tendency to go go go go and there are more demands put on their life whether it's through family, career, or their relationships. And they are not taking proper steps to nourish themselves to be able to sustain that way of life."
Today she talked to a group of people about changes they can make in their life to improve their energy levels.
Kavanagh says she wants people to understand how foods can affect the way you feel. "Having improved energy will help them with their vitality, give them more vigor more desire to go and live and love and be and have health."
Kavanagh offers a few suggestions: reduce or eliminate caffeine because the more caffeine you injest the more likely you are to have mood swings; eat dark leafy green vegetables because they are full of vitamins and nutrients; and take time for yourself, do something you enjoy like going to the movies or taking a walk.
Her most important tip is, "Get rid of the sugar in their life. That would be the number one thing that they should do and what I mean by that is not the healthy sugars like fruits and vegetables the unhealthy sugars like white bread, white rice, Sweet and Low, Equal anything that's not a natural form of sugar." She continues, "If you're using a lot of chocolate in your life to make you go go go then that actually has the adverse affect. Chocolate will actually drain you, it's a chemicalized sugar and it takes more to process a chocolate than it would say an apple."
Kavanagh goes on to say your personal relationships can also have an affect on your energy levels.
